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Synonyms for unblunted


Grammar : Adj
Spell : bluhnt
Phonetic Transcription : blʌnt

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Définition of unblunted

Origin :
  • c.1200, "dull, obtuse," perhaps from or related to Old Norse blundra (see blunder (v.)). Of tools or weapons, late 14c. Meaning "abrupt of speech or manner" is from 1580s.
  • As in keen : adj sharp, piercing
  • As in sharp : adj knifelike, cutting
  • As in knifelike : adj sharp
  • As in lancinating : adj sharp
  • As in stabbing : adj sharp
Example sentences :
  • Rabelais is the literary exponent of the earlier Renaissance, with its appetite for the good things of the world as yet unblunted.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of French Literature » by George Saintsbury
  • Kakunai jumped as if some one had thrust the unblunted end of a spear into his posteriors.
  • Extract from : « Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) » by James S. De Benneville
  • I lay down to sleep, and woke again with an unblunted sense of my surroundings.
  • Extract from : « In the South Seas » by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • He had adapted himself to the manners of the town; but he still had a most nervous conscience, sharp, unblunted.
  • Extract from : « Cape of Storms » by Percival Pollard

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